Thomas DiPrete, the Gidding Professor of Sociology at Columbia University, will be the CREO Guest Speaker on Monday, February 6, 2012. Professor DiPrete will be presenting "Peers and the Gender Gap on Educational Achievement" in 310 Jordan Hall of Science from 3:00 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.. He is currently working on a research project that concerns the analysis of gender and race differences in educational achievement and addresses the causes of the rising gender gap in favor of women in college completion, the role of social skills and non-academic behaviors in the production of this gap, the question of how gender differences evolve over the life course, and the reasons why the gender gap is larger for African-Americans than for Whites.
